October Blog

This month was a little weird. I did not have a ton of specific things I needed to do because I was ahead of schedule so I focused on doing more in-depth research and all kinds of little tangents and avenues to look into. I had a good time this month. I have also been extremely busy this month so I ended up not hitting the exact amount of hours I needed to stay on track, but that's okay. With accelerated term and breaks coming up soon, I should have more than enough time to make up the needed and missing 10 hours. I did have two talks this month which were awesome. I ended up only counting one of them for hours, though because I needed to do new research for that one. The second talk (the new one) was about Ohio hauntings and a bunch of the included stories and cases were roads, bridges, or railroads, thus were relevant to my project. I gave the talk for the Ravenna Historical Society. They were extremely nice and friendly. There were cookies and hot cocoa afterward and they gave me a private tour of their facility and I got to spend some time in their library and files. There were a lot of old and weird maps (I love maps). I also worked on my spook light list some this month but ended up scrapping it because I was spending way too much time on it with no real use.
I do not really think I showed very much initiative this month because I did not get my required hours done. I did a lot of other things with much time such as play Magic the Gathering and watch tv. It was a long month and this is probably going to lead to me having a ton more work in the future, but I had a fun month anyway.
The second talk (the new one) was about Ohio hauntings and a bunch of the included stories and cases were roads, bridges, or railroads, thus were relevant to my project. I gave the talk for the Ravenna Historical Society. They were extremely nice and friendly. There were cookies and hot cocoa afterward and they gave me a private tour of their facility and I got to spend some time in their library and files.
I learned that I should really do my work instead of just screwing around. I am not looking forward to the extra work I am going to have to do because of not really doing a ton this month. I did get some great leads from the Ravenna Historical Society when I went and gave my Ohio haunted places talk for them concerning some specific history of certain roads and bridges I'm investigating. I also learned a lot about the habits of spook lights and how they can work within the realm of unidentified flying objects and parapsychology/ghosts. I also learned a lot about cry baby bridges and their lore and history. I always assumed the only legend behind them was focused on the death of an infant, but I learned that there are some places that attribute the hauntings to lynchings done by the Ku Klux Klan, gruesome.
I did not really encounter any challenge; I just did not do any work. Instead, I did a lot of other things with much time such as play Magic the Gathering and watch tv. It was a long month and this is probably going to lead to me having a ton more work in the future, but I had a fun month anyway. Maybe the main challenge was actually working on the project. If that is the case, I failed horribly and terribly. I did not his my recommended hour amount and didn't really do a ton in general. I am going to be fixing that next month, but that does not really help me right now with the writing of this very blog post. I had something to do basically every weekend and weeknight and foolishly played Magic the Gathering during school when I had gaps in my schedule.
I am looking forward to beginning my outline for my book next month. I simply adore making outlines. I like the simplicity of it. I like they organized part of it. They are just fun. And it means I am getting ready to write the book which is incredibly exciting. I love writing and I am greatly missing it.

Cover slide of my presentation from this month